About this site

Sovereignty. Housing. Democracy.

Aontacht is a non-sectarian media collective that challenges the system from the perspective of everyday people with various members from Political Parties, Tenants’ Unions, Students Groups and Workers’ Interest Groups. It accepts articles, videos, photos and general media submissions from any who prescribe to a revolutionary socialist perspective.

Editorial Policy

“On the standard we raise is written—'This before God we believe to be true.' That is the only test we shall set our contributors; that is the only test our readers should apply to us, for that is the only test one errant and erring human being can set another as errant and as erring. - We believe “the hour is come” when men must face the naked truth so that they may be powerful to strip the sophistry to its naked falsehood. Therefore we shall reject no man’s opinion, whether we personally consider it to be vital truth or vital falsehood, so long as it be vividly presented and fearlessly expressed, for only by such means can we separate the tares from the wheat, the shadow from the substance, when the crisis is upon us.”

This was the Editorial policy of the Red Hand magazine, an Irish Republican work disseminated throughout Ulster during the revolutionary period, and we at Aontacht find the attitude of such a work during this time suited to our own; that at a juncture when the class and its movement has outpaced the conspirated and amateur outlook of the Socialists, a relentless honesty and culture of autocritique on an open playing field must be adopted to reconcile errors and to capture working class politics into a united and credible social force fit for social revolution. Subsequently, the initiative of this publication is to stress the need for and work towards the core aims of Class Independence, Unity of Socialists, Communists, Republicans and all revolutionary traditions within the country, and to work towards a competent Vehicle by which to recover and develop a Socialist programme and platform. From this we pledge to work against errors of parochialism, errors of sectarianism and errors which compromise class independence.

"We expect those readers who frankly disagree with certain opinions of ourselves and our contributors to state as frankly exactly where they differ from us, and to any such resilient grappling with any issue raised in this magazine ‘our columns are always open.”

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Our email is contact@aontachtmedia.ie - we will do our best to get back to you as soon as possible.